Wes Anderson is not just a filmmaker; he is also continually heralded as an interior designer. He has even designed his own café in Italy, bringing the linear, geometric patterns and pastel colours from the mise-en-scene of the majority of his films into the real world. Anderson’s set design is, in many ways, another character […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Infidelity
The nature of infidelity and the dissection of relationships has been always been a major focal point for filmmakers. Think of the broad array of films that have touched on this subject. From Cecil B. DeMille’s early silent film The Cheat (1915) to David Fincher’s highly successful 2014 film Gone Girl. This is truly a […]
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10 Ways Orson Welles Changed Cinema Forever
In the century since his birth, George Orson Welles has come to embody the definition of a misunderstood genius. A well documented prodigy of stage, radio, and film, his career would ultimately take a path of obscurity and unpredictability, falling far from the carte blanche infamy of his Hollywood origins. For a great many decades, […]
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The 10 Best Performances in The Movies of David Cronenberg
Born in Canada in 1943, David Cronenberg came from an artistic background. His father was a journalist who owned a bookstore and his mother played piano for the national ballet. Cronenberg studied classical guitar as an adolescent, but it was his father he took after, writing and publishing short eerier stories from a young age. […]
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The 20 Best Taiwanese Movies of All Time
Taiwanese cinema has been present since 1901, when the Japanese introduced it to the country and thus initially, most of the country’s films were very similar to Japanese productions. However, since 1949, when many filmmakers moved to the island from the Chinese mainland, Taiwanese cinema has grown as an independent industry, with melodramas and kung […]
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The 10 Best Movies of Hal Ashby
Filmmaker Hal Ashby had a remarkable run in the 1970’s as a director of deeply humanistic dramas and comedies, demonstrating a total mastery of tone and pacing, and always allowing generous space for his actors to deliver amazing performances. Yet somehow, his movies were frequently overlooked upon their initial release, overshadowed by flashier filmmakers and […]